Why can't Christians Verify Exactly Where Jesus Was Buried?

[Firefighter01]

I haven't read all this, but just in case it hasn't been stated:

The mythicist position, as I understand it, is that there isn't enough evidence to reliably pin the story onto one specific historical figure. It's not an outright statement that nothing happened at all. In fact, it could have all happened (bar the obvious made up magical stuff) but spread over several different people. Or parts of it happened to more than one person, and they got mashed together. And so on. It's the idea that there is one clear "Jesus" that is the myth, so sayeth the mythicist. Such characters arise in lots of other easy understandable ways, and can still absorb a few real events into their fictional life.

Well, I say it could have all happened, that isn't really true either. Some underlying story could have happened, from which vague contradictory accounts have developed.

It's not even a denial that there was in fact this one dude Jesus. It's just the position that this has not been evidenced, and as such fails to be a likely explanation when we have so many other ways of seeing how such stories can arise. That is how I see it, anyway. There's probably quite a few different takes on mythicism. But the strawman I often see is that the mythicist is saying stupid stuff like "none of it happened".

In my opinion, it's mostly fiction, with a smattering of real events inaccurately folded into it; most likely from several different real people. It's religious propaganda; or perhaps just a story.

Well said, Rob, that's pretty much what I believe too.  The small amount of historical correctness was placed there to add credence to otherwise fantastic stories.